Solo Pianist - Diary entries
Many of the initial performance details listed here were compiled from Zarui Apetian’s important research, published in Literaturnoye Nasledie [Collected Literature] (Sovietskii Kompozitor: Moscow, 1980, vol. 3, pp. 439-467). These details have been subsequently cross-referenced and checked with the many itineraries and other corroborating materials, especially substantial research that identified precise program details, collected by Rachmaninoff’s sister-in-law, Sophia Satina, housed in the Rachmaninoff Archive of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C (LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R22, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89). Further information has been gathered from Barrie Martyn’s book Rachmaninoff: Composer, Pianist, Conductor (Scolar Press: London, 1990), A Catalogue of the Compositions of S. Rachmaninoff by Robert Threlfall and Geoffrey Norris (Scolar Press: London, 1982), and research undertaken at the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture, Moscow.
January 15 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that the interval where this program was performed was between the works by Chopin and Liszt. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 16 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that the interval where this program was performed was between the works by Chopin and Liszt. The ‘Waltz’ by Strauss-Tausig which Satina states ended this concert could have been either ‘Man lebt nur einmal’ or ‘Wahlstimmen’, both of which were in Rachmaninoff’s programs in previous years. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 24 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that the interval where this program was performed was between the works by Chopin and Liszt. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 25 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that the interval where this program was performed was between the works by Chopin and Liszt. Satina also indicates that the program at this concert included a waltz by Chopin in A flat major. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 28 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that the interval where this program was performed was between the works by Chopin and Liszt. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 29 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that the interval where this program was performed was between the works by Chopin and Liszt. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 31 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that the Scriabin Etude was probably in D sharp minor, op. 8, no. 12. In various concerts in 1918 and 1919, Rachmaninoff played collections of preludes from Scriabin’s op. 11, and their more precise listing in some of those programs likely gives some indication as to which might have been played in this concert. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 4 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicates that the waltz by Strauss-Tausig could have been either ‘Man lebt nur einmal’ or ‘Wahlstimmen’, both of which were in Rachmaninoff’s programs in previous years. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 5 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that the interval where this program was performed was between the works by Chopin and Liszt. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 6 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that the interval where this program was performed was between the works by Chopin and Liszt. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 10 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicates that the waltz by Strauss-Tausig could have been either ‘Man lebt nur einmal’ or ‘Wahlstimmen’, both of which were in Rachmaninoff’s programs in previous years. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 12 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is possible that the Scriabin Etude was in D sharp minor, op. 8, no. 12, as Satina notes that for other concerts in late January and February her belief that this etude was played then. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 13 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicates that the waltz by Strauss-Tausig could have been either ‘Man lebt nur einmal’ or ‘Wahlstimmen’, both of which were in Rachmaninoff’s programs in previous years. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 15 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that the interval where this program was performed was between the works by Chopin and Liszt. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 20 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It might be presumed that the Prelude by Rachmaninoff was in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 21 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina has written that the program received for this concert was incomplete. The waltz by Strauss-Tausig could have been either ‘Man lebt nur einmal’ or ‘Wahlstimmen’, both of which were in Rachmaninoff’s programs in previous years. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 23 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that the Scriabin Etude was probably in D sharp minor, op. 8, no. 12. In various concerts in 1918 and 1919, Rachmaninoff played collections of preludes from Scriabin’s op. 11, and their more precise listing in some of those programs likely gives some indication as to which might have been played in this concert. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 10 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that this concert was ‘by invitation’, and that the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody included Rachmaninoff’s cadenza. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 2 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 4 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 6 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 9 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 14 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 16 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 12 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that as an encore Rachmaninoff played Melodie by Gluck-Sgambatti. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 14 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicates that in a review of the concert there was no mention of music by Bach, and that only one Etude by Chopin and one Prelude by Rachmaninoff were given. It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 16 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicates that in a review of the concert there was no mention of the Ballade by Chopin or the Etude-tableau by Rachmaninoff. It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 17 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 18 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 20 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.